Posted on 02/19/2010 9:49:49 PM PST by neverdem
And it was my favorite dish at the Italian restaurant, too. Bummer.
I’m so glad the FDA is after Kevin Trudeau......
This is making me glad that I haven’t been able to afford to refill my prescription!
High levels of vitamin D in older people can reduce heart disease and diabetes
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“. . .carbonara?”
Isn’t that the bad word Jennifer Lopez and George Lopez called Mrs. Palin?
Finally! About 5 years ago I took Avandia for 4 or 5 months and got progressively sicker each day. Swelling, muscle aches, fatigue, palpitations, etc. Tried to tell my doctor, but he didn’t think it could be the med. I even emailed the FDA, etc. about it, but never received a reply. Finally stopped taking it myself and was soon back to normal. Terrible drug for Type 2 diabetes
Why did it take you so long to put it down? It reminds me of my father, he had to give up working as a carpenter and go on disability while in his mid fifties. The doctors said he had severe arthritis and would not live long, they put him on a medicine that he only took for a few days and then threw the rest away. He said that stuff will kill you. A few years later the medicine was taken off the market because the stuff would kill you. I can’t remember the name of it but Dad lived to be one month shy of eighty two and was completely free of arthritis symptoms in his later years. In fact in his late seventies he was as flexible as a thirteen year old. He did a lot of work on his own house long after the doctors who told him he wouldn’t live long had been buried.
Sometimes you have to listen to your own body and ignore the doctors.
I took it briefly as well but immediately stopped when I heard the reports. And yes, they put me on Actos.
Best decision I ever made.
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Just my two pennies.
Ping for later.
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This must have been approved by the FDA before it was marketed.
What do they mean, it’s not safe?!?!?
That wouldn’t have been Vioxx would it?
Thanks. Adult onset diabetes can be helped in many ways.
There were warnings about ACTOS as well. I was taking it and when I saw the warnings I asked my doctor (had switched doctors at Kaiser because the prior one moved away). I already had 1 heart attack (mild) and 2 stents put in heart as result. He told me that he wouldn’t have prescribed it with my history based upon what they knew now. I had him take me off of it and we did something else.
Those are incredible statistics, and it would be remarkable if they didn't show up during the various trial stage. Or if they did, it's damning that they were not reported.
This is a very serious failure of the system.
“That wouldnt have been Vioxx would it?”
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This happened before Vioxx came along, whatever it was my father took it for a very short time and decided his body was telling him to stop it before he died from it. My mother was a nurse and she was very upset when he wouldn’t take the stuff but when it was pulled off the market and my father started into full remission without medication she had to rethink.
He never knew what to credit his recovery to but he figured it was some kind of wild plant he had eaten. He said he had eaten raw every wild plant that he thought wouldn’t kill him and something must have worked. He had a fair knowledge of plant life gleaned from practical experience on the farm, not from school.
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